Word: contacts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Florida judge ruled that Kimberly Mays could end all contact with her biological parents, Regina and Ernest Twigg. Kimberly was accidentally switched at birth with another girl whom the Twiggs discovered was not their daughter after she died of a congenital heart defect five years ago. The judge ruled that the Twiggs have "no legal interest in or rights to Kimberly Mays," while deeming Robert Mays, who has raised the girl, to be her "psychological parent...
Soon Aller was visiting cemeteries. "I'd put my hands on the tombstones and make mind contact," he says. He would see his deceased grandmother walking through his parents' home. He was convinced that objects in his apartment were pipe bombs. He was worried that a sniper was outside, somewhere, waiting for him. "He was so convincing that I was frightened," says his father Bob Aller...
...cause of Kelly's death: rabies. The finding was baffling because the girl had not reported being bitten or scratched by an animal, and all the Ahrendts' pets and livestock had been vaccinated. Though it may never be known how Kelly got the virus, she could have had some contact with an infected animal that she thought nothing of at the time. Rabies is so rare in Americans (Kelly was the first New Yorker to die of it since 1954) that the doctors had little reason to suspect the disease. And by the time they saw her, they probably couldn...
...simple measures, families can minimize the risks. First, they should get pets inoculated, particularly those that might encounter other animals. Last year health officials destroyed 290 rabid cats and 182 infected dogs. In rural and suburban areas, people should keep pets behind fences so they will have little contact with wild animals; garbage and pet food should be kept indoors to discourage furry intruders from entering backyards...
...events leading up to the Bad Kleinen incident began last year when Bonn issued a controversial appeal for a cease-fire to the R.A.F. Its leaders responded by promising to stop murdering high government and business officials. The overture, though, led to a lapse by the terrorists: they made contact with leftist sympathizers, who might serve as go-betweens in talks with the government. One was Klaus Steinmetz, 33. What the R.A.F. did not know was that Steinmetz had been a police informant for several years...